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1 Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
Reprint requests to: Michal Zolkiewski, Department of Biochemistry, 104 Willard Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA; e-mail: michalz{at}ksu.edu; fax: (785) 532-7278.
(RECEIVED September 5, 2003; FINAL REVISION November 19, 2003; ACCEPTED November 23, 2003)
| Abstract |
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S, a nonhydrolyzable ATP analog, as well as ADP stabilize hexameric ClpB. Consistently, electron microscopy reveals that ring-type oligomers of ClpB in the absence of nucleotides are larger than those in the presence of ATP
S. Thus, the binding of nucleotides without hydrolysis of ATP produces a significant change in the self-association equilibria of ClpB: from reactions supporting formation of a heptamer to those supporting a hexamer. Our results show how ClpB and possibly other related AAA+ proteins can translate nucleotide binding into a major structural transformation and help explain why previously published electron micrographs of some AAA+ ATPases detected both six- and sevenfold particle symmetry. Keywords: ClpB; AAA ATPase; molecular chaperone; protein association; nucleotide binding; analytical ultracentrifugation
Abbreviations: ATP
S adenosine 5'-O-thiotriphosphate
Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.03422604.
| Introduction |
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ClpB, a bacterial AAA+ ATPase, is a member of a multichaperone system (with DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE) that reactivates strongly aggregated proteins (Goloubinoff et al. 1999; Motohashi et al. 1999; Zolkiewski 1999). Similar protein-disaggregation machineries have been identified in yeast (Glover and Lindquist 1998) and plants (Queitsch et al. 2000), but the mechanism of ClpB-mediated protein reactivation remains unknown. Unlike many AAA+ proteins that form stable oligomers, ClpB and other closely related Clp ATPases undergo reversible nucleotide-dependent self-association (Parsell et al. 1994; Maurizi et al. 1998; Zolkiewski et al. 1999). The oligomers of ClpA (Kessel et al. 1995), ClpX (Grimaud et al. 1998), HslU (Bochtler et al. 2000), and Hsp104 (Parsell et al. 1994) are hexamers in the presence of ATP. In contrast, the identity of a nucleotide-induced form of ClpB is under discussion. Published reports suggest that ATP induces either a hexameric (Zolkiewski et al. 1999) or a heptameric (Kim et al. 2000) form of ClpB.
To resolve this discrepancy, we investigated the molecular properties of ClpB under a broad range of solution conditions. We tested the hypothesis that self-association reactions of ClpB may involve both a hexamer and a heptamer and that different oligomers can be selectively stabilized by buffer conditions. We characterized the nucleotide-independent and the nucleotide-induced oligomerization of Escherichia coli ClpB in solution. Our results show that the binding of nucleotides switches the ring assembly mechanism of ClpB from one supporting heptamer formation to one preferentially stabilizing hexamers. The nucleotide-driven structural switch in ClpB may provide a mechanism of coupling between ATP binding/hydrolysis and induction of conformational changes in aggregated proteins.
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ATP stabilizes hexameric ClpB
In the presence of saturating amounts of a nonhydrolyzable ATP analog, ATP
S, and 0.2 M KCl, the sedimentation equilibrium data for ClpB are consistent with a single molecular species of 531,000 molecular weight (Fig. 2
), which is ~7% lower than the predicted molecular weight of a hexameric ClpB. A simulated protein concentration gradient for heptameric ClpB deviates significantly from the experimental data, as shown by high and nonrandom residuals (see Fig. 2
, upper panel). This result for ClpB is consistent with the hexameric structure found for most AAA+ proteins in the presence of ATP, including other Clp ATPases, and varies from the conclusion of Kim et al. (2000), who suggested a heptameric structure of ATP-bound ClpB.
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S (Fig. 2
S (~13 nm, Fig. 4A
S (~1.5 nm, Fig. 4A
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Collectively, our results reveal that ClpB is capable of forming two types of ring-like oligomers: hexamers and heptamers. Which one of these oligomers equilibrates with monomeric ClpB under physiological ionic strength conditions in the absence of nucleotides? As discussed earlier (see Fig. 1
), sedimentation equilibrium cannot unequivocally resolve the molecular weight of the high-molecular-weight oligomer. In order to observe the associated ClpB particles in electron micrographs, a highly concentrated protein sample in 0.2 M KCl must be prepared, which precludes resolved image analysis. Thus, to determine whether it is hexameric or heptameric ClpB that equilibrates with smaller oligomers in the 0.2-M KCl buffer, we performed sedimentation velocity experiments at high protein concentration (Figs. 5
, 6
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Figure 5
shows apparent distributions of the sedimentation coefficient, g(s*20,w) for 2 mg/mL ClpB obtained from the time-derivative analysis of the sedimentation velocity data (Stafford III 1992). For a single molecular component, the g(s*20,w) distribution is symmetrical and its maximum defines the sedimentation coefficient of that molecular species. Thus, the maximum of g(s*20,w) gives the value of s°20,w for the ClpB heptamer (at low ionic strength, Fig. 5A
) and the ClpB hexamer (with ATP
S in 0.2 M KCl, Fig. 5C
) because a single molecular component predominates in both of these samples (see Figs. 2
, 3
). It has been shown, however, that for mixtures of rapidly equilibrating associating oligomers, the maxima of g(s*20,w) do not correspond to sedimentation coefficients of any of the species, but reflect the population-weighted average of hydrodynamic properties of all interacting components (Stafford III 1994). Thus, the apparent s°20,w obtained from the maximum of the asymmetrical g(s*20,w) for ClpB in 0.2 M KCl (Fig. 4B
) does not correspond to the sedimentation coefficient of a specific single oligomeric species because several types of oligomers are in equilibrium under physiological salt conditions (see Fig. 1
).
As shown in Figure 6
, the apparent sedimentation coefficient (s°20,w) of heptameric ClpB (in the low-salt buffer) is ~3 S higher than that for hexameric ClpB (with ATP
S in 0.2 M KCl). Interestingly, the s°20,w values measured for ClpB with ADP agree with those obtained with ATP
S, which indicates that either nucleotide stabilizes hexameric ClpB. In 0.2 M KCl without nucleotides, the s°20,w value for ClpB increases with increasing protein concentration, which indicates the progress of the association reactions. The s°20,w of ClpB in 0.2 M KCl without nucleotides exceeds the values for hexameric ClpB by ~2 S at 25 mg/mL protein.
At low protein concentration (<~0.5 mg/mL), gel filtration studies showed an increase in apparent size of ClpB and other Clp ATPases on nucleotide binding (Parsell et al. 1994; Singh and Maurizi 1994; Zolkiewski et al. 1999; Kim et al. 2000), consistent with the nucleotide-induced association of monomers into hexamers. Remarkably, the s°20,w values of ClpB at high protein concentration decrease after adding ATP
S (Fig. 6
, arrows). A decrease of sedimentation coefficient on the addition of a ligand to a macromolecule can be due to decreasing molecular weight (dissociation of an oligomer) or increasing frictional coefficient, which reflects an increase in the particles Stokes radius, RS (van Holde et al. 1998). To account for the decrease in s°20,w, such that s°20,w(-ATP
S) / s°20,w(+ATP
S)
1.14 (see Fig. 6
) without a change in the particle molecular weight, one would predict RS(+ATP
S) / RS(-ATP
S) = 1.14. A similar difference in RS occurs between two gel-filtration standard proteins: thyroglobulin (Mr 669,000) and ferritin (Mr 443,000). However, gel-filtration chromatography of ClpB at ~2 mg/mL (Fig. 7
) shows that RS of ClpB does not increase in the presence of ATP
S. We conclude that it is a decrease in the molecular weight of ClpB that contributes to the significant decrease of s°20,w on the binding of nucleotides (see Fig. 6
). Thus, the association reactions of ClpB under physiological ionic strength in the absence of nucleotides involve an oligomer heavier than a hexamer, which converts to the hexamer in the presence of either ATP
S or ADP. Consequently, the most likely association mechanism that is consistent with both sedimentation equilibrium (see Fig. 1
) and sedimentation velocity (see Fig. 6
) involves ClpB monomers equilibrating with heptamers and dimers in 0.2 M KCl in the absence of nucleotides.
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17 S at 5 mg/mL ClpB in 0.2 M KCl, which indicates that the ClpB self-association is not complete at this protein concentration. Indeed, the values of the monomer-dimer-heptamer equilibrium constants (see the legend to Fig. 1| Discussion |
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Whereas some AAA+ proteins form stable oligomers irrespective of nucleotide binding, in many members of the superfamily, including Clp ATPases as well as the microtubule-disassembling katanin (Hartman and Vale 1999), oligomers undergo nucleotide-dependent association/dissociation reactions. We have performed the first complete characterization of such association equilibrium for an AAA+ protein in solution. Our results suggest that the nucleotide-independent and the nucleotide-dependent behavior of AAA+ oligomers may be more dynamic and may involve more oligomeric species than previously thought. It is remarkable that ClpB forms either stable ring-like hexamers or heptamers, depending on conditions (cf. Figs. 2
, 3
). Interestingly, Hsp104 (Schirmer et al. 2001) and ClpB (Mogk et al. 2003), after cross-linking with glutaraldehyde in the absence of nucleotides, migrated on SDS-PAGE with a slightly higher apparent molecular weight than proteins cross-linked in the presence of ATP. Because of possible cross-linking artifacts and a low resolution of the gels, the apparent molecular-weight differences have not been explored further. In contrast, this study provides an absolute measurement of the molecular weight of ClpB oligomers in solution using sedimentation equilibrium (see Figs. 2
, 3
). Our results are also consistent with those of Rohrwild et al. (1997), who "spotted" both hexamers and heptamers in the population of HslU oligomers. Another AAA+ ATPase that uses a similar self-association mechanism as ClpB is the RuvB branch migration motor, which apparently switches from a heptameric to a hexameric ring on binding to DNA (Miyata et al. 2000).
Our results raise the possibility that ClpB, which is produced in high amounts in bacteria under heat shock (Squires et al. 1991) and whose concentration in vivo is expected to be high, may switch between heptameric and hexameric forms during the cycle of ATP binding/hydrolysis and the release of ADP. The switch between ClpB oligomers involves partial dissociation of the rings, which may provide a mechanism for "prying apart" aggregated substrates, the first step in ClpB-assisted protein reactivation.
| Materials and methods |
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clpB::Kmr, a gift from Dr. C. L. Squires, Tufts University; Squires et al. 1991) by infection with
DE3 lysogen (Novagen). The full-length, 95-kD Escherichia coli ClpB was overexpressed in this strain by using the plasmid pET-20b and purified as described previously (Barnett et al. 2000).
Sedimentation equilibrium experiments
A Beckman Optima XL-I analytical ultracentrifuge with a four-position AN-Ti rotor was used in sedimentation experiments. ClpB solutions (0.11 mL) and dialysate buffer (0.12 mL) were placed in a six-channel centrifuge cell. The samples were equilibrated at 4°C at a desired speed and the approach to equilibrium was monitored by repetitive absorption scans every 4 h. After the final data collection (usually after 5660 h), the rotor was accelerated to 40,000 rpm for ~6 h. Subsequently, the centrifuge was returned to the equilibrium speed and the cells were scanned immediately to obtain the baseline absorption value. The data were analyzed by using the software supplied with the instrument (Beckman). Partial specific volume of ClpB (0.7306 mL/g at 4°C) and the density of buffers were calculated using Sednterp software (ftp://ftp.rasmb.bbri.org/rasmb/). During the analysis of absorption gradients, the data offset was treated as an adjustable parameter and the analysis was accepted only if the offset value agreed with the measured absorption baseline within an experimental error (±0.005).
Sedimentation velocity experiments
ClpB and dialysate buffer (~0.4 mL) were loaded into a double-sector centrifuge cell. After equilibration at 20°C and 3000 rpm, the rotor was accelerated to 40,000 rpm and radial scans of the cell were performed at 1-min intervals using the interference detection system. Apparent sedimentation coefficient distributions were calculated using the time-derivative method (Stafford III 1992) and DCDT+ software (http://www.jphilo.mailway.com/). Observed sedimentation coefficients were corrected to values corresponding to the density and viscosity of water in the limit of a dilute protein solution (s°20,w) using Sednterp software.
Electron microscopy
ClpB preparations were negatively stained with uranyl acetate and recorded using minimal dose methods at a magnification of 60Kx with a JEOL 1200 EXII electron microscope. Digitized micrographs were displayed on a computer monitor and individual images of symmetrical particles with a central dot of stain were selected as "end" views. These images represented only a small fraction of those contained in each micrograph, due either to predominance of alternative orientations, or to distortions caused by the specimen preparation. All end-view images were selected, aligned, and averaged with the SPIDER image analysis software suite, using a reference-independent procedure (Penczek et al. 1992).
Gel filtration chromatography
ClpB samples (10 µL of ~20 mg/mL protein) were chromatographed on a Superose 6 PC 3.2/30 column (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) using a Shimadzu HPLC system with a flow-rate of 0.05 mL/min. Protein standards were obtained from Sigma.
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